I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.
– Pat Conroy
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- I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
- I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well. – Pat Conroy
- Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
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- The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
- He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. – Pat Conroy
- When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children – Pat Conroy
- I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves. – Pat Conroy
- You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle. – Pat Conroy
- Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
- I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. – Pat Conroy
- There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
- Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
- Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
- Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
- The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
- It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
- The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
- I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told. – Pat Conroy
- You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
- A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – Pat Conroy
- I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. – Pat Conroy
- Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers – Pat Conroy
- The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are. – Pat Conroy
- One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher. – Pat Conroy
- Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. – Pat Conroy
- Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy